6-letter words containing e, c, l
- cuttle — cuttlefish.
- cybele — the Phrygian goddess of nature, mother of all living things and consort of Attis; identified with the Greek Rhea or Demeter
- cycled — Simple past tense and past participle of cycle.
- cycler — a person who rides or travels by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
- cycles — Plural form of cycle.
- decals — Plural form of decal.
- decile — one of nine actual or notional values of a variable dividing its distribution into ten groups with equal frequencies: the ninth decile is the value below which 90% of the population lie
- deckel — a board, usually of stainless steel, fitted under part of the wire in a Fourdrinier machine for supporting the pulp stack before it is sufficiently formed to support itself on the wire.
- deckle — a frame used to contain pulp on the mould in the making of handmade paper
- declaw — to remove the claws from (an animal or bird)
- delice — a delicacy; a pleasure
- delict — a wrongful act for which the person injured has the right to a civil remedy
- docile — easily managed or handled; tractable: a docile horse.
- dulcet — pleasant to the ear; melodious: the dulcet tones of the cello.
- e-coli — Escherichia coli.
- ecbole — (rhetoric) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his or her own words.
- eccles — Sir John Carew [kuh-roo] /kəˈru/ (Show IPA), 1903–97, Australian physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
- ecclus — Ecclesiasticus
- eclair — a finger-shaped cream puff, filled with whipped cream, custard, or pastry cream, often coated with icing.
- eclose — To give rise to, or to undergo eclosion.
- elance — (transitive, archaic) To throw like a lance; to hurl.
- elchee — an ambassador
- elects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elect.
- elench — a refutation of an argument by proving the contrary of its conclusion, esp syllogistically
- eliche — pasta in the form of spirals
- elicit — Evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.
- emblic — a deciduous tree, Phyllanthus emblica, found in eastern India and belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae, used for tanning
- encalm — to becalm, settle
- enlace — Entwine or entangle.
- enlock — to lock or secure
- epical — (literature) Any book containing 2 or more epics.
- euclid — (language) (Named after the Greek geometer, fl ca 300 BC.) A Pascal descendant for development of verifiable system software. No goto, no side effects, no global assignments, no functional arguments, no nested procedures, no floats, no enumeration types. Pointers are treated as indices of special arrays called collections. To prevent aliasing, Euclid forbids any overlap in the list of actual parameters of a procedure. Each procedure gives an imports list, and the compiler determines the identifiers that are implicitly imported. Iterators. Ottawa Euclid is a variant.
- excels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excel.
- exclam — (grammar) abbreviation of exclamation.
- exilic — Of or pertaining to exile.
- f clef — bass clef.
- facile — moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
- faecal — feces.
- feckly — almost, mostly
- fecula — fecal matter, especially of insects.
- felice — a female given name, form of Felicia.
- felsic — (of rocks) consisting chiefly of feldspars, feldspathoids, quartz, and other light-colored minerals.
- fickle — Changing frequently, esp. as regards one's loyalties, interests, or affection.
- fleche — Architecture. a steeple or spire, especially one in the Gothic style, emerging from the ridge of a roof.
- flecks — Plural form of fleck.
- flecky — a speck; a small bit: a fleck of dirt.
- fleece — the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
- fleech — flattery
- fleecy — covered with, consisting of, or resembling a fleece or wool: soft, fleecy clouds.
- flench — to strip the blubber or the skin from (a whale, seal, etc.).